The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-03-25
The Story Of a Wreck.
Thrilling and Romantic Account Of
Autiny at Sea.
~ w. CLARK RUSSELL
CHAPTER xxvn.-Coyr,xr.r.

sCornishw 1 cr1ed. recovering my
selt and seizing the man by the arms
rs he stood shouting at the fast lessen
lag ship. "what is the use of those
oatas7 Let them go their ways-the
pifilcss towards! We are Englishmen.
and our lives are still our own. Come.
brave companion! we have all under
gone too much to permit this trial to
kreak us. See this lady! she swears
chat we shall be saved yet BE of her
heart and mine and the boson's there.
and help us to make another fight for
It Come!"
He suffered me to pull him off his
pcriious perch. and thtn sat himself
down upon coil of rope, trembling
AL over, aud hid his face in his hands.
But new trouble awaited me.
At this moment the steward came
staggering up the companion-ladder.
bis face purple, his eyes protruding,
and talking loudly and incoherently.
He clasped the sea-chest belonging to
himself, which certainly was of greater
weight than he in his enfecbled state
wouid have been able to bear had he
mot beeu mad. The chest was corded.
md he had no doubt packed it.
He rushed to tie ships side and
pitched it overheard. aud was in the
ACT of springing onto the rail, mean
ing TO fling himself into the sea. when
1 eAmght hold of him, and, using more
force than l was conscious of, dragged
him backward SO violently that his
head struck the deck like cannon
shot. and he lay motionlcSs and in
sensible.
-'That's the best thing that could
have happened to him." exclaimed the
AoaGswain. LET him lie q bit. He'll
CONT 10. and maybe leave his craze
behind him. 1t wOui,ln't be the fust
time I've seen a daft man knocked
sensible
And then. coo'ly biting chew out
of a stick of tobacco, which he very
carefully replaced in his brcechcS-
pocket. he added
-Jim, come and lay hold of this here
wheel, will yer, while me and Mr..
Royle pumps the ship out?'
Cornish got up and took the boats
xain's place.
Il can help you to pump. Mr. Roylc."
said Mss Robertson.
The boatswain laughed.
--Lor' bless your dear art. miss.
what next" he cried. mo. no; YOU
stand by here ready to knock this stew
ard down again if he shows hisself
anxious to swim arter the Roosian.
VOL sec what water the ships
a-makin'; and if she shows herself
obstinate. as l rayther think she will,
why. We'll all turn to and leave her.
For you've got to deal with bad ship
ms YOU would with bad wife; use
every genteel persuasion fust and if
that won't alter her. there's nothcn for
it but TO grease yonr boots, oil your
hair. and politely walk out"
CHAPTER XVIII
There being but two of us now t.
work the pumps, it was more than we
soald do to keep them going We
piled them, with brief spell between,
and then my arms fell to my side. and
1 told the boatswain l could pump no
more
Hc sounded the well and made six
inches.
There's only two inches lief: that we
Ssl.s sGt oub vi Hef, Sslll uCs anu
they II do no HARM"
On which we Quilted the main-deck
and came into the cuddv.
Mr. Eoylc," he said, seating him
self Oh the edge of the table, 1--WE shall
have to leave this ship if we aren't
Eakcn olf her. l reckon it'll require
twelve feet o water TO sink her.
=.ifowin' for there being deal O wood
Su the cargo; and maybe she won't 90
down at that. However. we'll say
twelve feet, and supposin' We lets her
le, she'll give us. if you like, eight or
nine hours afore settlin'. I'm got say
ing as we ought to leave her; but I'm
Jo0kin' at you. sir. and see that you're
VERY nigh Knocked up; Cornish i,
about u quarter o the man he was; an
as 10 the bioomin' steward, he's as
good as drowned, no better and no
worse. We shalt fake one spell too
taapy at them pumps and fall down
nader il an never get up agin. WOt
gre had best do is to keep look all
<Iuitter-boat really for lOwerin', and
stand 10y TO leave the ship when the
sSex Gains. You know how Bermuda
bears, don't YOU, sir9'
ii can end out to night 1t is too
}ate 30 get sights now"
II think" he returned, ''that our
lives II be as safe in the boat as they
ere on board this ship, an triile
safer. I've been watching this vessel
a Coos! deal and my belief is that wos
another gale to strike her, She make
s'ise o her long plunges and go to
pieces like pack o cards, when she
got to the bottom o the valley o
water Of course if this sea don't
calm we must make shift to keep her
=siioat until it do. You'll excuse me
for talkin' as though I wos d:ctatin'.
I'm just giyin' you the thoughts that
como into my head while We wos
lEnpin.
Il quite agree with you." 1 replied;
81 am only thinking of the size of the
quarter boat-whether she isn't too
small for five persons?"
Not she! I'll get bit of mast
rugged up in her and it II go hard if we
don t get four mile an hour out of her
ssomehows. How fur might. the Bcr-
nuda Islands be Off"
answered, after rejecting some
moments, that they would PROBABLY be
distant from the ship between two
hundred and fifty and three hundred
miles.
I'VE should get pretty near 'em in
three days." sand he, ''if the wind
blew that way. Will you go an tell
zae young lazy what we're thinkin' O.
doing. while overhauis the boat an
SET what's wantin' in hera One good
ioh Is wa Shan,t haze To mt off